Divine Might

Cheerfully erudite … academically rigorous … combining immense scholarship with a sarky easy-going tone * The Times *Full of wonderful stories … packed with detail from ancient source material * The New Statesman *Incredible stories about timeless emotions. * NB Magazine *The great champion of women in Greek myth … One of the delights of the book is that Haynes reacquaints us with forgotten goddesses. * Daily Mail *A powerful read that really opens a new dialogue on the Greek goddesses * The Independent *

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020, and Stone Blind. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek myth, Pandora’s Jar, was a bestseller in both the UK and the US. She has written and performed eight series of her BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015 she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience.